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by 082349872349872 572 days ago
No, avoiding blowing ourselves up (or summering ourselves out?) means we had much bigger things to be afraid of than capital-t Terrorism.

For what it's worth, I believe that instead of starting a war and an occupation, when the Taliban said they were ready to give ObL up on condition the US provide some evidence he was behind WTC, they could've simply been taken up on their offer. (Similar goes for "WMD")
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gsf_emergency 572 days ago
Let's just (pace namer of the kwisatz haderech) call the true Shaitan by its name: meretrocracy :)

[Fwiw I have not Figured out the right orthography (including case, number of R's etc)]

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082349872349872 571 days ago
As in "the divided god"? not shoggoth but sandworm?
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gsf_emergency 568 days ago
Look what the deity brought in

https://youtu.be/oSCwy34u3XY

("Shortening of the Way" was an epithet for the God-Emperor's father, implying the the Golden Path itself has zero extension?)

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082349872349872 568 days ago
Until I looked up the original and discovered that "recaps" was meant to be taken literally, I was ready to be impressed*, as I'm a fan of those trailers that tell different stories, eg: death star as insurance fraud, or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekXxi9IKZSA (an interpretation so strong, it even continues to work for the sequel)

which implication specifically? (for me zero extension is that set about which all predicates, even normally contradictory ones, are true)

in space-time anyway the GP appears to have had quite a bit of geometric extension, even in eigentime.

Lagniappe: Joseph as sabra? https://64.media.tumblr.com/6d601f74ae9201df318403b8c7e25b32...

compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ_... ?

* but maybe I'm insufficiently suspending disbelief, as in my world, female grad students in archaeology wind up more often in places like Ürümqi, not in places like "Wilson"?

I guess the question is how to remain content with the ordinary yet still seek out the extraordinary? Look at the stars but keep your feet on the ground? (观星步土?)

> A man's retch should exceed his grasp / Or what's a heaving for? —not RB

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gsf_emergency 559 days ago
Most actual (not fictional) archaeology grads today (imex) tend to go to Wilson..

Because that's where the palatable politics lies waiting to be discovered! (And it's cheap and inflation controlled!)

Not sure about Europe.. politico-economic considerations may get there soon?

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